Responding to news that Malta will allow two ships that have been stranded at sea for almost three weeks with 49 people on board to dock, Elisa De Pieri, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Southern...

Hakeem al-Araibi, the former international footballer, risks torture and death if he is returned to Bahrain from Thailand, Amnesty International warned today. Al-Araibi and his wife have now been held...

Responding to news that the UN have granted refugee status to Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year old Saudi woman, and put her forward for resettlement to Australia, Samah Hadid, Amnesty International...

‘2019 needs to be the year the UK finally does the right thing and ends its shameful Saudi arms shipments’ - Kate Allen Amnesty International has renewed its longstanding call on the UK Government to...

Ahead of the two-year anniversary of the collapse of Northern Ireland’s devolved government (9 January), Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty’s Northern Ireland Programme Director, said: “For two years the...

Responding to reports that the Iranian prison authorities have prevented the jailed UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from having a regular telephone call with her husband Richard after an...

‘The Thai authorities are bound by the general prohibition not to transfer persons to any place where they would face a real risk of serious human rights abuses’ - Samah Hadid Responding to reports...

Internet cut off and radio and TV stations targeted, while election results may be delayed beyond 6 January ‘This attack on freedom of expression and media freedom risks exacerbating an already tense...

Netflix has defended decision to pull episode of Patriot Act show, saying it had to ‘comply with local law’ ‘Netflix is in danger of facilitating the Kingdom’s zero-tolerance policy on freedom of...

Responding to Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s comments on asylum-seekers arriving in the UK , Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: "The Home Secretary's comments...